A randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blinded trial showed no benefit from antibiotic therapy for the management of uncomplicated acute diverticulitis. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hospitalized patients (N=180) in New Zealand and Australia were assigned to receive antibiotics (n=85) or placebo (n=95) for 7 days for uncomplicated acute diverticulitis (Hinchey 1a grade, established by CT). There was no significant difference in median time of hospital stay between the antibiotic group (40 hours; 95% confidence interval [CI], 24.4\u201357.6 hours) and the placebo group (45.8 hours; 95% CI, 26.5\u201360.2 hours) (P<\/em>=.2). There were no significant differences between groups in adverse events (12% for both groups; P<\/em>=1.0), readmission to the hospital within 1 week (6% for the placebo group vs 1% for the antibiotic group; P<\/em>=.1), and readmission to the hospital within 30 days (6% for the placebo group vs 11% for the antibiotic group; P<\/em>=.3). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blinded trial showed no benefit from antibiotic therapy for the management of uncomplicated acute diverticulitis. Hospitalized patients (N=180) in New Zealand and Australia were assigned to receive antibiotics (n=85) or placebo (n=95) for 7 days for uncomplicated acute diverticulitis (Hinchey 1a grade, established by CT). There was no significant difference in median … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","categories":[1768,1790],"tags":[2051,2050],"class_list":["post-7947","ec-news","type-ec-news","status-publish","hentry","category-asge-journal-scan","category-ibd","tag-antibiotics","tag-diverticulitis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.endoscopy-campus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ec-news\/7947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.endoscopy-campus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ec-news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.endoscopy-campus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ec-news"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.endoscopy-campus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.endoscopy-campus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.endoscopy-campus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}